Amazing how traditions evolve, isn't it? Thanksgiving used to be about hypermaxing your caloric intake, followed by falling asleep in front of the TV watching insipid football. Now, we eat a hearty meal, listen to "Alice's Restaurant", and watch a 22 minute episode of a long-defunct sitcom about a radio station dropping live turkeys from a helicopter.

Alice's Restaurant came up in the course of discussion once upon a time, and an older fellow and I spontaneously starting singing a couple bars of it, in harmony. Weirded the hell out of this AFROTC cadet in the room with us.

Because I was another AFROTC cadet.

And the older fellow was the USAF Colonel larger than life fighter pilot that was in charge of our training.

They still took both of us. Things had changed, Arlo, things had changed... 18 years ago.

blackhonda:He (Arlo) is currently worth 10 million plus. There gold in protest I guess!

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Guthrie has also become a Rand Paul Republican. Like a lot of those 60s "hippie" types it appears that he wasn't motivated so much by righteous indignation against and unfair and immoral society as he was interested in smoking dope and sleeping with groupies.....and not getting shot in a jungle in Southeast Asia.

BTW, there is an old dude who lives down the street who is rabid Tea-Party supporter. Back in the 60s he was a hippie who lived in Greenwich Village. He used his wealthy parents' money to attend a foreign medal school in Franco controlled Spain. He came back after the draft ended. He never did become a doctor.

One of these days, I am going to have to make a drive out to the quote-scene-of-the-crime-unquote. I'll be sure not to bring any shovels, rakes, or implements of destruction. Don't want to run into Chief Officer Obie Jr. or nothin'.